Re: Re: instead of wiping the data, filling an encrypted volume with zeros

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Dick Middleton schrieb:
>
> The problem with writing zeros is that every block will be encoded the
> same so it's possible to see where the real data ends and the encoded
> zeros blocks begin.
nope :)
encrypted zeros at sector x give not the same data as encrypted zeros at
sector y (if x != y)

poptones schrieb:
> Why not just fill the encrypted volume with OTHER data? Copy a few VOBs
> to it until it's full, then delete them. 
>
>   
it's not copying data to a filesystem, it's filling the whole(!)
partition with dd.

some time ago (1-2 months) there was a similar discussion abaout this.

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